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David Smith and Eric Baber’s new book “Teaching English with Information Technology” has just come out. The publisher’s web-site is: {{link http://www.ModernEnglishPublishing.com Modern English Publishing}} Thanks to the authors for the kind reference to the CD-ROM Teacher’s Handbook. There should

A great conference last weekend! Keep an eye on this site for event photos – coming soon!

Stop press!! It has just been confirmed that I will be doing a presentation for Macmillan on the English Campus at the TESOL conference in Rome. The date? Friday 23 September. Further details shortly. VERY much looking forward to visiting

This is a subject that has bubbled away almost since the Web was born. This piece by Raphael Behr in today’s Observer newspaper called {{link http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1567143,00.html?gusrc=rss Access Denied}} gives a good summary of the issues although, in light of current

Issue 3 / 2005 of BESIG Issues has just been published. The CD-ROM / Internet page looks at Macmillan’s English Campus and a range of new CD-ROMs for business English. Congratulations to Oleg Tarnopolsky on another great “issue” (pun intended).

The timetable for the conference in Torun has been posted on the IATEFL Poland web-site – and it looks like it will be an exciting event! I am very much looking forward to my second trip to Poland this year

Chapter seven of Evan Frendo’s new book “How to Teach Business English” (Longman) looks at distance learning. It includes a focus on E-learning and the Internet. Congratulations to Evan on the book, and many thanks for his reference in the

My enthusiasm for podcasts continues. However, it is apparently possible for podcasts to infect your computer with viruses. I think the usual advice prevails about only downloading from reliable sources and keeping firewalls and anti-virus software on your computer operating

I am very pleased to be presenting at the forthcoming conference in Torun, Poland, this September. This autumn sees both myself and Barney involved in extensive travelling to various venues throughout Europe – please see the Events section on this

Full details of Barney’s session on the Internet and business English & Pete’s session on the English Campus at the BESIG Conference in Monaco this November are now available on the {{link http://www.besig.org BESIG web-site}}.